CALENDAR 1924 August 11-16.-Registration of students. Applications for admission should be made to the Registrar at or before this time. August 18-10 A.M., First meeting of students. August 19-Classes begin. November 27-29-Thanksgiving recess. Christmas recess: December 22 to January 10, inclusive. 1925 January 12-Second semester begins. May 13-Commencement Day. State legal holidays will be observed. The office of the Dean is at Hastings College of the Law, 111 State Building, San Francisco. Telephone Park 8700. The office of the Registrar is at Room 710 Chancery Building, San Francisco. Telephone Douglas 1536. HISTORY Hastings College of the Law was created by Act of the Legislature of California, approved March 26, 1878, which provided for its affiliation with the University of California. The College was endowed by Honorable Seranno Clinton Hastings, the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California, after whom the school is named. During the early years of the college, Professor John Norton Pomeroy occupied the position of Professor of Municipal Law, and during his incumbency wrote his work on Equity Jurisprudence. Upon the death of Professor Pomeroy in 1885, Honorable Charles W. Slack was appointed to the faculty and from 1894 until 1899 acted as Professor of Municipal Law and Dean of the Faculty. Between the years 1888 and 1894, Honorable E. W. McKinstry, formerly a Justice of the Supreme Court of California, was Professor of Municipal Law. For twenty years beginning with the time of the retirement of Judge Slack from the faculty in 1899, Dr. Edward Robeson Taylor served as Professor of Law and Dean of the College. Upon the resignation of Dr. Taylor in 1919, the present Dean was appointed. LOCATION The classrooms and quarters of the College are located on the ground floor of the State Building, in the San Francisco Civic Center. In the same building are located the rooms of the Supreme Court, the District Court of Appeal for the First Appellate District, the Railroad Commission, the Industrial Accident Commission and other State boards and officials. Across the street is the San Francisco City Hall, in which are located the trial courts and the San Francisco Law Library, the most extensive law library on the Pacific Coast, which is used as the library of the College. The San Francisco Public Library is also located in the Civic Center. Within a few blocks is the Postoffice Building, in which the United States District Court and the United States Circuit Court of Appeals hold their sessions. The opportunities thus afforded the students of the College are practically unexcelled among city law schools. PURPOSE The purpose of the College is to furnish systematic and thorough instruction in those branches of our jurisprudence which will fit the student for the practice of the profession of law. With this end in view, the courses which are given are based primarily on the case-book method, the aim being to develop the analytical powers of the student, and his familiarity with the historical development of the law. Special attention is given to the codes and statutes of California and the decisions of the California courts. MOOT COURT Moot courts, under the direction of members of the faculty, are established as a regular mode of instruction. Participation therein is compulsory upon all students. LECTURES In addition to the regular courses, lectures are delivered from time to time by judges and lawyers upon special topics. LIBRARY FACILITIES In addition to our own library, students are permitted to use the Bar Association Library (during office hours) and the San Francisco Law Library of more than 46,000 volumes. PRIVILEGES ON GRADUATIÓN Students who complete the prescribed courses receive the degree of Bachelor of Laws from the University of California. FEES Tuition is free, but a fee of $25 per semester is charged to cover incidental expenses. SCHOLARSHIPS The Sheffield Sanborn Scholarships for the year 1924-25 were awarded to Lucine V. Edwards and Lawrence W. Young of the class of 1925. PRIZE The Bancroft-Whitney prize, offered for the student of the first-year class having the highest scholarship record, was awarded for the year to Anson Henry Morgan. REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION Every applicant for admission to the College must be shown to be of good moral character and must either (1) be a graduate of the University of California or hold an academic degree from some other approved university; or (2) must have obtained a Junior Certificate in an academic college of the University of California, after two years' residence, or must have satisfactorily performed equivalent work at some other university or college. Credit will be given for work done at other law schools; but such credit will not be given unless the law school at which the work has been done is a member of the Association of American Law Schools, or unless the student has completed the amount of preparation required for admission into this College. Members of the bar may, in the discretion of the Dean, be admitted as special students. Further information may be obtained from the Dean or the Registrar. Property I. FIRST YEAR Professor R. W. HARRISON The law of personal property; Bigelow's Cases on Personal Property. Two hours a week, first semester. Tu W, 9-10. Property II. Professor M. E. HARRISON Bigelow's Cases on Rights in Land and assigned cases. Two hours a week, first semester. F S, 9-10. Four hours a week, second semester. Contracts. Williston's Cases on Contracts. Assistant Professor BELL Three hours a week throughout the year. M W F, 8-9. Torts. Assistant Professor BALLENTINE Ames and Smith's Cases on Torts, Pound's edition. Common-Law Pleading. Mr. ERSKINE With special reference to forms of action and the various grounds of legal liability. Cook and Hinton's Cases on Common Law Pleading. Two hours a week, first semester. M, 9–10; S, 10–11. SECOND YEAR Professor R. W. Harrison Sales of Personal Property. Woodward's Cases on Sales. Two hours a week throughout the year. Tu, 8–9; Th, 9–10. Negotiable Instruments. Professor R. W. HARRISON Smith and Moore's Cases on Bills and Notes. Corporations I. Professor R. C. HARRISON Canfield and Wormser's Cases on Private Corporations. Property III. Professor M. E. HARRISON Aigler's Cases on Titles; assigned cases on Wills, Titles, and Administration. Two hours a week throughout the year. Tu S, 9-10. Equity. Ames' Cases in Equity Jurisdiction. Two hours a week throughout the year. M W, 9–10. Trusts. Scott's Cases on Trusts. Mr. BRYAN Assistant Professor MCWILLIAMS Three hours a week, first semester. This course will not be given during the year 1924-25. |